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Behind the scenes of becoming an author. Cathy, Kate and Máire talk about the process of their writing, opportunities for writers and interview other writers and authors about the process, the challenges and the best advice for new and aspiring writers.

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Clean54. Interview with Catherine Kullmann

This week Máire talks to author of historical fiction Catherine Kullmann. Catherine talks about why she's drawn to the regency period she writes about and how its still relevant to today, and gives some great advice to other writers.
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Máire met with fellow fantasy author JM Coombs for a chat in the rare Dublin sunshine to talk fantasy, fan fiction and writing full time. James' book Richard Struggle: Evacuate the Masquerade is out now. And you can find more updates on his writing on

Máire caught up with writers Ann Richardson and Jacky Dahlhaus when they were in Dublin for the Dublin Writers Conference. Ann talks about her non-fiction writing and Jacky talks about her vampire trilogy.
Máire's book is available to buy and if you'

Clean51.News from the Dublin Writers Conference and news of book launch event

Cathy & Máire chat (with baby Willow) chat about the Dublin Writers Conference. They talk through the experience of the conference and the topics that came up there.
Some relevant links: David Gaughran is a digital marketing guru. And though Máire co

With Máire's fantasy novella After the World being published today, Kate and Máire sit down to a proper chat about it. Máire talks through her influences in writing this book, where the original idea came from, and how other books and authors have

Kate and Máire sat down to talk about their latest updates. Kate talks about her new book and Máire talks about the preparation (or lack thereof) in the run up to having a book come out.
Máire talks to Laurence O'Bryan about the Dublin Writers Confer

For the second time we take our podcast out of the urban setting and take inspiration from the rural idyll. In this case the rural idyll was extremely cold, so it wore its hoody indoors the whole time. This is mostly an update of where we're at. Kate em

This week join us around the table as we talk about the challenge of writing moral characters.No one seems to like the goody-goody who always does the right thing and everything in life seems to work out for him. So how do you write a likable moral cha

This week we consider the emerging sub-genre of speculative fiction, Climate Fiction. This genre explores how characters feel and react to their changed world. We speculate about authors and films we've read and watched to see if they qualify as Climat

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This week Máire raises the issue of making your author page and how to write a good bio for early stage authors. You can see Cathy's author page at cathycclarke.com and Máire's at mairebrophy.com, Kate plans to do hers

This week Máire talks about the opportunities for writers in the D&D world - that's the Role Playing Game Dungeons and Dragons - looking at the model of the DM's Guild for selling player written games using the D&D rules. Cathy brings up a thorny issue

This week we have author Sinead Hamill, author of 'Scumbags and Handbags', 'Smiling Vendetta' and the soon to be published 'Dippers'. Sinead talks about her decision to self-publish, where her inspiration comes from and the drive she has to write (and o

We've been apart for awhile so now we have a lot to say. In this episode Kate tells us about finishing her epic book, Cathy talks about her latest editing and writing group activities and Máire brings us some significant news. We also talk about the di

Two roads diverged in a wood. Kate was on the one that was going somewhere, Maire was not!
We're passed the half way point in this recording for NaNoWriMo, and we're quite far apart from each other. Kate is ploughing ahead and Maire realises she has bee

It's one week into NaNoWriMo, and we discuss where we're at. Kate is getting into it working out her treatment, and Maire has faltered and changed tracks, and not sure if she'll change tracks again.
We are still writing, and yet nowhere near the pesky

The second episode of our nano podcast series was recorded on day 2 of NaNoWriMo. We meet in a surprisingly jazz filled room (just imagine us in black and white) to check in and see how the current project is going.
We're off the blocks with our words

This is the first in our nano series of nano podcasts about NaNoWriMo. Kate and Maire signed up to NaNoWriMo.org and have committed to writing 50,000 words in the 30 days of November... although we feel the actual number of words is negotiable.
In this

Author Kevin Curran talk to Irish Writers Podcast this week about his books Beatspoiltation and Citizens. Citizens, published earlier this year, tells a personal story of the 1916 Easter Rising juxtaposed with life in modern day Ireland. We talk about

By nature we are innately curious as human beings. Exploration is in our genes. And what better world to explore than our own cities, beckoning us from the doorstep? In literature there seems to be an absence of women 'wandering' the streets as contempl

In this episode Cathy brings up the topic of fan fiction. Are we fans of fan fiction?
There are some authors who have gone beyond influence to actually imitating well-known authors. We discuss the tension of finding your own voice while being influenc

This week I speak to author Caitriona Lally. Her debut novel Eggshells was released in 2015. We talk about a sense of place, comparisons with Joyce and the challenge of writing the second novel.
Presented and produced by Máire Brophy

We're back after the summer for our second year of podcasting. In this episode we finally talk about the writers retreat we had back in May and then get on to the business of the writing update.
Kate talks about a new challenge in a new format as she m

On this week’s episode we meet with author Catherine Ryan Howard, whose debut fiction novel Distress Signals was released last week. While this is Catherine’s first fiction publication, she is an experienced writer with three self-published non-f

HI everyone!
In this episode we get inspired by Roland Evan's conversation and talk about how we want to incorporate his simple but brilliant advice and creative retreats into our own writing process. We also comment on names and their significance, an

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This week we have the privilege of hearing from Roland Evans author of The Marshland Chronicles, a dystopian fantasy and coming of age novel. Roland was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2010 which gave him incentive to finish his book. We ta

This week we reconsider what we’ve been told about writing novellas – that is not to do it – and examine what novellas are, how to write them, where they can be published and who likes to read them. As a result I’m much less freaked out about th

This week we talk about the story that’s a fire all over the writing world. Eilis O’Hanlon published an article in theIrish Independent about how she discovered her published novels were stolen and available for sale on kindle under the name Joanne

This week we give an update on our writing and how we are (slowly, ever so slowly) progressing.
Kate also shares with us an experience she had sharing her writing process with a creative group based in Dublin.
We hope you enjoy listening.
Presented

This week 2/3 of the podcast team attended the Town Hall meeting called by the International Literary Festival Dublin to discuss the upcoming event. In this podcast we discuss the outcomes of that meeting for those who could not attend and throw up a fe

This week we focus on writing fantasy. Kate is a practiced hand and Máire's just begun, so we go through Melissa Kelly’s Top Eight Rules For Writing Fantasy http://fantasy.fictionfactor.com/articles/fantasyrules.html and talk about what we’ve done

This week we chat about Historical Fiction, what it is and how to write it best.
We hope you enjoy listening.
Presented by Cathy Clarke, Kate Mulholland and Máire Brophy. Produced by Cathy Clarke.
Music by Gavin Mulhall

In this episode we discuss George Orwell's motivations for writing which he documented in his essay Why I Write : http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw
Presented by Cathy Clarke, Kate Mulholland and Máire Brophy. Produced by Cathy C

This week we discussed 'a sense of place' - how to achieve it, how to describe it, what are the obstacles?
Presented by Cathy Clarke, Kate Mulholland and Máire Brophy. Produced by Cathy Clarke.
Music by Gavin Mulhall

At the start of 2015 our writers group set out individual goals... it's time to face the music and see if we did what we said we'd do. Some things roll over into our 2016 goals, and we set the trap for an awkward discussion this time next year!
We move

WE’RE BAACCCK! Happy New Year… It’s taken us almost a month to recover from our Christmas hangover, but the good news is that we have been writing. The even more advanced news is that Cathy and Máire have been engaging with professionals.
We s

This week we have a 'lively discussion' (read: argument) regarding the takeaways from the Queen Mary University of London paper called The Business of Being an Author: A Survey of Author's Earnings and Contracts. However we make friends again in tim

This week after our writing update we discussed Romantic-Comedies, asking the question “how does one write an authentic Irish love story while adhering to the Hollywood beats of a Rom-Com?”.
We also discussed the 2016 calendar, looking at some compe

This week, we get an update from Maire and Kate on their adventures in NaNoWriMo. We discuss short stories (and ask really, what’s the point?). And despite it being a little bit early we talk about possible Christmas Presents for Writers – what to

In this episode we disclose our struggles of the mid-edit blues and the lack of motivation both Maire and Kate are feeling at this stage. Cathy chimes in as the voice of the therapist, having pushed through her editing to the end. We despair, but that i

This week Máire met with Oran Doyle, an aspiring writer with a fair few writing achievements under his belt already. Oran was drawn to writing from a young age, and focused on film. He has had several shorts funded and made and spent two years as a fr

This week the discussion revolved around the opening lines. We looked at good and bad examples from a range of authors and then took these learnings to see how our own openings would fare under intense scrutiny.
We also discussed the upcoming NaNoWri

While still trying to repress our coughs and sneezes, this week we tackled one of the core challenges of writing – how do you make people care? We discuss how to make likeable, relatable protagonists, how to build emotional attachments to the story, a

In between coughs, snuffles and sneezes, this week we started out talking about the importance of book covers. Then Kate, in her usual philosophical manner, posed us a beardstroker about the muse, and we thrash out what we think it means and if we’ve

This week, following Viola Davis’ acceptance speech at the Emmy’s, we discuss diversity, women and how to open up those opportunities.
We also discuss reinventing the wheel; what do we do when we get stuck writing a particular scene we are not c

In celebration of making double digits (episode 10!), we have an extended episode this week.
We started with a discussion of the rules of our different writing genres.
Kate started us off, discussing the rules of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but we si

This time we talk about the things that we’ve used that helped us: books, websites, courses, conferences, and everyone refuses to enable my insistence that movie watching counts as writing! I then asked when are you ready to go looking for an agent

In this episode we discuss how sparks of ideas end up as written stories, what we look for in ideas to make them into stories, and ponder how we picked the subject or if the subject picked us. This segued neatly into talking about what we would do diffe

This week we gave a writing update to see how far we had come since the pilot episode, and what were the obstacles in the way.
We then flowed into the thorny subject of naming characters, places and sometimes things. The question of using nicknames

This week Kate stumped us with an excellent question: what role does the act of listening play in our writing. We grappled with this and finally emerged with some very different thoughts and views (and a conspiracy theory was born: has this whole podcas

This week we had a discussion on what makes a good story and what is it that really attracts a reader to a story. We discuss what attributes make our favourite stories our favourites, and what traits should be absolutely avoided.
This was followed b

In a continuing discussion from episode 3, the conversation turned to writing classes - what benefits do they bring and why should people do them. As a confessed class-aholic Cathy loves a good writing class and attends them frequently, however, interes

On a pleasant sunny Saturday in Dublin, over afternoon tea, Cathy hosts our third episode - a discussion on editing. We are all in the process of editing the third draft of our novels/screenplay and because of this Cathy thought it would be interesti

In this, our first ‘real’ podcast, we discuss whether genre effects your writing, what was the worst and best writing advice we ever received and when is it time to walk away. We also give a writing update.
Presented and produced by Cathy Clarke,

This is the inaugural episode of the Irish Writers Podcast, where three unpublished writers discuss their writing, their journey towards publication and interesting topics for writers. In this episode Kate, Cathy and Maire introduce themselves and their